U.S. Spy Plane Shot Secret Video of Jamaican ‘Massacre’

Under heavy US pressure to capture and extradite mafia don Christopher “Dudus” Coke who was indicted in US Federal court for international
drug smuggling, the Jamaican authorities launched Operation Garden Parish, a mission that involved 500+ of Jamaica's military and would become
one of Jamaica's bloodiest assaults (in recent history) resulting in 73 deaths, many of which are claimed to have had no ties to Coke.

The Jamaican soldiers who carried out Operation Garden Parish, had to overcome roadblocks set up by Coke soldiers prepared for the raid. And more
than that. “I ﬁred my AK until my ﬁnger was numb,” reads a passage from a Coke gunman’s diary unearthed by Schwartz.

What no one knew until now was that circling overhead was a P-3 Orion spy plane, operated by the Department of Homeland Security. This claim has
arisen from a lengthy investigation by journalist Mattathias Schwartza.

The video, said to have been screened in a joint U.S.-Jamaican operations center in Kingston, has never been released. Its contents are
politically dangerous for a Jamaican government still reeling from Tivoli Gardens. (Coke was eventually arrested and convicted in New York; Golding
resigned.) And the documents Schwartz acquired suggest that there might have been U.S. operatives on the ground during the raid, which the U.S.
denies.

Of course, the video footage taken by the plane cannot answer all of the questions regarding what actually took place on the ground that day. It can't
(for instance) answer whether or not innocent people were taken by soldiers from their homes, executed and left on the streets to be counted among
those loyal to the mafia don, nor can it definitively show how many (and who) civilians were caught in the middle and found themselves unable to
defend against Coke's loyalists, or who those were fighting with him, but it might have answered some of the questions, had it been
released.

“My belief is that the video could help identify exactly which members of the Jamaican security forces were where, and when,” Schwartz says.
“Until the identities of these individuals are made known, and some court or other investigative body compels them to give public testimony, we will
not have a final answer to these disturbing and credible allegations.”

Coke was later arrested and convicted and the Jamaican Prime Minister resigned, so who and what is Homeland Security protecting by burying the
footage, both then and now? Is the US covering its involvement or helping to protect the unstable Jamaican Govt.? Both? Neither?

I laugh every time I see something about Dudus. Every day my relatives tell me what happens, and sometimes I don't even listen. What I do recall is
that ALOT of regular people joined in to HELP Dudus. Reason being is that that area isn't really financially good, and he donates alot to help the
people around. What i did not hear was that US forces were involved. I do know that many people were killed if they had ties with the don, not just in
that community, but as far as Lover's lane. Also, mass killings from JLP fighters and mafia gunmen alike, including police raids. One thing to be
prepared for is the amount of police killings you would hear about, and considering police killing is a day-to-day thing over in Jamaica, even if
it's an innocent kid, I suggest to not romanticize it too much. Jamaica's killing morality is worst than day-to-day Muslim stoning. You'll get
stoned. dragged in the street and beaten, lit on fire, and shot, just for having consensual sex with someone under 16.

According to the National Security Admin. no US forces were involved, nor was information passed to Jamaican authorities during that time.

Despite a detailed account out about the role of a United States (US) spy plane in the Tivoli Gardens incursion last May, the Jamaican Government
is insisting that local law-enforcement personnel had no help from their American counterparts.

Why is the United States that I belong to, violating airspace in any country and spying on them?
We have no right to legally do it. Let us try it to the Chinese or Russians and see what happens this time around.
While Human Rights advocates can push it, my Constitution does not.

The lessons learned may have been invaluable actually.....
Meanwhile grow up a little, the arrest and assault on the king dons neighbourhood would nessessarily be a bloody one, and it is a stupid command
structure which does not seek intelligence of all types available.......
The Orion was probably also in ground contact.......it must have been to overfly the country......
I wouldnt be suprised if the US had personnel on the ground either.....
It only stands to reason the orion was there to help co ordinate...it probably has infr red vision and other toys....
Maybe they even expected the perp to head out to sea or fly away in a small chopper or other light aircraft with stol capability.
Plausible deniability my friend ....

To all questioning why a US aircraft may have been in/over Jamaica airspace --

Of course I was not there nor involved so I do not have answers - HOWEVER - Jamaica is under British Rule...with a local Prime Minister assigned.
Hence, our ally (UK) allows this and most likely was involved and/or coordinated this operation.

Jamaica has been this way since independence from the UK in 1962, the drug gangs are connected to the various political parties and they shoot it out
and play the local strongman. Coke's gang for example is 'affiliated' with the Jamaican Labour Party - Bruce Golding's party.

It's not surprise that 50 years after independence the majority of Jamaicans say that Jamaica would have been better off had it remained a British
colony.

We are forced to allow a large percentage of our pay checks to be extracted from us in the form of too high taxes,some of which they tell us is
being used in the war on drugs,when actually,its going into the elite and beautiful peoples pockets to be spent on wine women and song and god knows
what else...

Most of these countries were hell holes to begin with,only colonized for their resources,then when the occupation forces leave,it reverts back
into the hell hole it was.Most of these countries seem to be trapped back in the dark ages...

the colonizers enter these countries when they are already rat and bug infested hell holes,filled with diseases, slavery, slave labor,
cannibalism, voodoo, human sacrifice, putrid drinking water, tribal warfare, starvation and the mass rape of women.They were colonized for their
natural resources, for money and when the colonizers leave,these countries fall back into their stone age abyss...

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